30th Advice Summer Seminar

Luciana Fernández – Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English and a teacher educator who has 28 years experience in the field of education. She has specialized in Methodology, Teaching Practice, Early Years Education, Literacy and Critical Thinking. She holds a Diploma in Educational Research from University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She has also two postgraduate certifications in Teaching for Comprehension and Thinking Cultures (FUNDACIES, Colombia).

Luciana has presented at numerous congresses and conventions both nationally and internationally and was awarded an IATEFL scholarship in 2016.

At present she is an International Senior Academic Consultant for National Geographic Learning and she is an Educational Advisor at several bilingual schools locally and internationally. She has been both a teacher and Head teacher at several institutions in Buenos Aires and has been a teacher trainer at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate) for the past eighteen years.

Lucrecia Prat Gay

A life-long learner who has been teaching for 39 years and coordinating since 1990, she co-founded Río de la Plata Sur School and was its Head of English until last year. Lucrecia is a Neuropsicoeducator, with a Self-Esteem Practioner Degree, a Positive Discipline Certified Educator a school consultant, an author and a former actress. She studied Brain Based Learning overseas, and has been successfully putting the model into practice for the last twenty years. She has spoken at countless conferences and seminars throughout the country, Latin America, Italy, USA and Greece sharing her passion for the brain and the role of emotions in learning, is an International Teacher Trainer for Oxford University Press and the Academic Director of Asociación Educar. Author of articles on Motivation and Brain Compatible Learning for OUP and the ebook on Social and Emotional Learning Activities that accompanies the Together series for primary ( Oxford University Press) . Lucrecia also wrote articles for Trinity College London (Brain and Tests) and La Nación Newspaper (Emotional intelligence). She teaches “Brain friendly learning” in the AE and UBA University Diploma of Neuroeducation and Neuroeducation at the Profesorado Universitario para Nivel Secundario y Superior Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires. The second edition of her first book, “From Passion to action” has been printed by Kel Editions that will also print her next book “Cómo transformar la escuela en una escuela cerebro compatible”

Gustavo Gonzalez

Graduated as a teacher of English at I.S.F.D. N° 5 in Pergamino (Argentina) and holds a postgraduate degree from UBA, the National University of Buenos Aires. He also holds a postgraduate diploma on Education and New Technologies from Flacso (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), has completed a course on Neurosciences for Educators and is finishing his Diploma Course on Neurosciences at Asociación Educar. He has been in the ELT field since 1993, working as a teacher, school coordinator, teacher trainer and presenter. He has been delivering seminars and workshops all over Argentina, South, Central and North America, China and Singapore. He is one of the contributors to the book “Imagination, Cognition & Language Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Theory and Practice”, published by the New Jersey City University and has also written some articles for OUP (Oxford University Press), IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) and other institutions. He is a teacher trainer for the Oxford Teachers’ Academy (OTA), freelance PD trainer for Oxford University Press and Trinity College London. He is a former vice president of APIBA, the Buenos Aires English Teachers’ Association and former vice president of FAAPI,the Argentine Federation of English Teachers’ Associations.

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